6/17/2005

RAISING AN ALEC

The last 6 months my wonderfully creative Alec has been insisting on picking out his own clothes and getting dressed by himself. Yeah for Him you say. Well yes, but........he will not wear matching clothes. I think his daycare waits to see him come in to see what he came up with that morning.

This morning was a green long sleeve alligator pj top and bright blue sweats. It's summer time and gets almost to 100 every afternoon and he wants to wear sweats. He hates being cold and they do run the air conditioners at the daycare so I can see his justification there, but he never matches. Wednesday he wore a long sleeve white button up church shirt, swimming suit trunks that were blue with scooby-doo on them, over his knees socks and cowboy boots.....such a sight.

So tonight I am taking him shopping. I am going to help him pick out some new clothes with the hope that he will dress better. And some new sandals, he keeps wearing Ashton's which are about 3 sizes too big.

Wish me luck, and if you see a almost 4 year old running thru wal-mart and hiding in the clothes racks, it's probably Alec. Please tell him to go find his mom!!!!

4 Comments:

You say this not knowing. Have you ever been in a store with people looking at you like you are a horrilbe mother because your child looks like a rag doll??? I am glad he likes to get dressed on his own, we just need to work really hard on his matching skills. Kids are so cool, they make us take a deep look at ourselves.